State Roads Sets Lower Truck Weight Limits Across Counties
About 40 overweight trucks were stopped in Frederick and Washington counties as road crews used loadometers to enforce new lower limits. One truck weighed 83,000 pounds against a 36,000 pound limit. Truckers must unload excess on the spot. out-of-state drivers face cash bonds and court summons. Enforcement lasts at least 30 days with possible extension if frost damage worsens. Similar limits are in effect in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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Frederick
Washington
Commission
Maryland
State Roads Commission
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Communist Forces Press Toward Mukden in Manchuria Siege
Chinese Communist troops pushed their big guns toward Mukden as they tightened the blockade after capturing Faku and advancing from the north. Eyewitness accounts spoke of the siege of the industrial city amid airbase attacks and fuel shortages, with refugees and panic in Ukden and Penhsihu.
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Tsingtao
China
Aiuklen
Manchuria
Peiping
Faku
Mukden
N. O. Dahlsten
Berrien Prings
Mich
Mukdem
U. S. State Department
Penk
Penhsihu
Local Maryland Weather Forecast Summary 3ed AP Local
Fair today and tonight across upper eastern shore and central Maryland with little change in temperatures. Highs in the 30s and lows in the 20s to 30s. Warm Tuesday afternoon. Western Maryland mostly fair tonight and Tuesday with highs in the 30s and lows in the 20s.
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Associated Press
Upper Eastern Shore
Maryland
Anne Arundel
Prince Georges
Amontgomery County
Frederick County
Quads End First Week With Visit From Mother
Latrobe Pa February 23 The Zavada quadruplets marked the end of their first week of life with a visit from their mother Barbara Zavada 26 who viewed the four babies through glass topped incubators John Michael Anne Mary Barbara Rose and Bernadette Elizabeth and commented they are not so small Dr J Wiley Harman said the babies are doing as well as can be expected and will remain in hospital until each weighs six pounds
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Latrobe
Zavada
Barbara Zavada
John Michael
Anne Mary
Barbara Rose
Bernadette Elizabeth
J. Wiley Harman
Kent
Red Cross To Ask $10,000 In This City
Frederick Red Cross fund drive opens March 1 with Daniel J. Thomas as general chairman and a city quota of 10,000. Nell head committees led by Charles Main Paul Simpson and others assign pledges for groups. Dinner March 17 at Grace Evangelical church features George A. Nevin. Red Cross aims to raise 75,006,000 nationwide for disaster relief and veterans services.
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Nevin T. R. Waskey
Frederick City
Red Cross
Daniel J. Thomas
Frederick County
Richard F. Nallin
Walker
Charles V_ Main
Paul D. Simpson
Otho J. Keller
Ralph W. Idustrial
Har
Jacob R. Ramsburg
Robert D. Mobler
A. G. Bourne
James Kelly
Roland E. Beldin
Camp Detrick
Keller
Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church
Second Street
Monocacs Valley Association
Fidelis Bible
George A. Nevin
National American Red Cross
Centers Administration
Aliaine
ADA Would Abolish Un American Committee in Philadelphia
Americans for Democratic Action adopted a platform calling for the abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The party branded the Thomas committee a threat to freedom of political opinion and opposes proposals to outlaw communists or any political party. Orville W. Crowder will speak on Birds of Maryland to the Mary land chapter of the AAUW Tuesday at 7:30 PM at the Historical Home.
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Philadelphia
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
House
Ts Srset
Thomas Camiridge
Wilson Wyatt
Caunist
Orville W. Crowder
Ornithological Society of Maryland
Maryland
American Association of University Women
Reds seize Prague power as police guard embassies
Communists tighten grip in Prague by seizing government buildings and foreign embassies. Police armed with submachine guns surround radio centers and arrest opponents while new passport stamps freeze many citizens. Leaders linked to National Socialist and professional unions are detained as ministers resign and authorities declare security measures across Czechoslovakia.
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Prague
Czech National Socialist Party
Ministry of Interior
Dzenek Marjanko
Ministry of Justice
Vladimir Krajina
National Socialist Party
Zdenek Uhl
Medical Students’ Union
Jiri Ptak
Engineers’ Union
Klement Gottwald
Eduard Benes
Slovakia
Foreign Office
London
V. A. Zorin
Vishinsky
Bucharest
Petru Gorza
Romania
Andrei ¥_ Vishinsky
Zorin
Parliament
Four-Point Plan Urged for Palestine Partition
Four prominent Americans urged the United Nations and the United States to back a four point plan for supporting partition of Palestine. The group includes Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Sumner Welles, proposing a UN international force, measures short of force, and lifting the arms embargo for willing parties.
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Lake Success
United Nations
United
American Association For the United Nations
U_ NL
Palestine
Holy Land
U. N
U. S
Safeguards for Witnesses Proposed in Congress
A Maryland University professor urged Senate hearings to grant witnesses more safeguards. Franklin R. Burdette proposed that every witness have a chance to present relevant statements and reply to testimony. He spoke before the Senate committee on Executive Expenditures, which is examining how Congress conducts business.
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Washington
Maryland University
Franklin R. Burdette
Burdette
Senate Committee On
Congress
No Holiday Today For Roads And Post Office Work
No city or rural mail deliveries or window service today due to Washington's Birthday observance. Post office lobby open for PO box holders. banks and county roads crews worked snow removal. Roads mostly passable. some drifts up to two feet. Temperatures rise above freezing later today with possible rain or snow Tuesday or Wednesday. Parking meters on free ride. schools marked the holiday.
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George Washington
County Roads Boards
Braddock Heights
Big City
Frederick
Weather Bureau
Washington
Winter Blamed For 48 Deaths
Winter blamed for weekend disasters across France and Switzerland. A 90 passenger flying boat from Latecoere 631 crashed near Utah Beach with 19 aboard presumed dead. two bodies found. Lyon bus crash killed ten athletes and injured twenty. In Wadenswil, a ski train derailment near Zurich killed at least 29 and left 48 injured.
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Paris
France
Switzerland
Utah Beach
French Channel
Wear Lyon
Lyon
Wadenswil
Zurich
Legion Heads Hear Proposals For Campaign
Over 40 commanders adjutants and legionnaires from 13 of 17 posts in western Maryland American Legion gathered at Francis Scott Key post home led by G Ernest Lipps to back a national drive urged by James ONeil. The drive runs through March 15 anniversary of the 1918 Paris founding with posts exceeding quota to receive a composite picture of past national commanders and an autographed photo of the current commander. Posts represented included Boonsboro Tanertown Hagerstown Thurmont Camp Ritchie Mt Airy Syxeville Funkstown Brunswick Emmitsburg Williamsport Westminster and Key Post in the western Maryland district which covers Washington Carroll and Frederick counties.
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Mary-and
American Legion
Department of Blaryland
Francis Scott Key
G. Ernest Lipps
James O'Neil
Paris
Oneid
Boonstore
Tanertown
Hagerstown
Thurmont
Camp Ritchie
Mt. Airy
Syxesvile
Funkstown
Brunswick
Emmitsburg
Williamsport
Westminster
Maryiend
Washington
Carroll
Frederick Counties
Child Suffocated In Clothes Closet Fire In Work Pa
A five year old girl, Jacqueline Havarla, daughter of co owner Gertrude Havarilla, suffocated as fire swept a four story restaurant and rooming house in Work Pa. The body was found in a second floor clothes closet after firefighters gained control. George Clark, 60, one of 24 occupants, was overcome by smoke and revived at the scene.
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Work
Jacqueline Havarla
Gertrude Havarilla
Aremen
Carl Peterson
George Clark
Tooming
Stimson on Morgenthau Plan and Germany policy
Washington reports Henry L. Stimson recalls the Morgenthau plan aimed to strip Ruhr industry, noting Roosevelt and Churchill debated it at Quebec in 1944. He says Roosevelt later admitted ignorance of how it began and appeared fatigued as cabinet debates continued.
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Washington
Henry L. Stimson
Morgenthau
Germany
Ruhr
Roosevelt
Churchill
Quebec
Stimson
Tha Cabbine
Ladi Home Journal
Secial
Orgenmau
Coen
Bites Es Morgenthau
Morgenthau Gorries
President Discusses Virgin Islands Charter Renewal
President Truman declared Congress must renew the Virgin Islands Company charter to stabilize the islands economy. He wrapped up his goodwill Caribbean tour with a stop in Christiansted attended by Governor William Hastie and other local officials.
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Christiansted
St. Virgin
Trumaan
Congress
Charter of the Virgin Islands Company
Cariubean
St. Cragin Ishcon
Wiliam H. Hastie
American beer heiress marries in German castle ceremony
American beer heiress Wilhelmina Busch, 64, wed feudal pomp in a Starnberg castle to Ad Sam Woods, U.S. consul in Munich. The February nuptials linked German estates with American diplomacy.
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Starnberg
Germany
Wilhelmina Busch
Wes
Sam Woods
U.S
Munnich
Four Injured In Fire Above Tavern At Mayo Road
Four persons were injured early today in a fire in their apartment above a tavern on the Mayo Road in Woodland Beach. Eleanor Collinson, 30, her son Philip, and daughter Linda Ann, 6, suffered facial burns and were admitted to Annapolis hospital in non life threatening condition. James Mo Collinson, 38, father, received an arm laceration and was discharged after treatment.
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Woodland Beach
Mayo Road
E Eleanor Collinson
Philp
Linda Ann
Annapolis Hospital
James Mo Collinson
Six Die in Cambridge Fire at Brewster Street Home
A Cambridge blaze on Brewster Street killed six members of the Gregg family including Harvard graduate Alan Gregg, 40, his wife Ann and four children. Only the family maid Edna Roper survived with critical injuries as firemen battled the three story wooden house. Deputy Chief Kilfoyle said the fire started on the first floor and rushed to the third, with several firemen and the chaplain overcome. Father Tierney later collapsed after performing last rites.
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Cambridge
Mass
Brewster Street
di Alan Grege
Harvard
Ann
Susan
Alan
Peter
Thomas
Edna Roper
Thomas Tierney
Henry Kilfoyle
Gregg
Tierney
Mt. Auburn Hospital
Cambridge City Hospital
Begin Talks On Future Of West Germany
The United States Great Britain and France open a conference in London to decide Western Germany’s postwar status. Russia absent from talks amid tensions over the Marshall Plan and Cominform. Ambassador Lewis W. Douglas represents the United States with the Benelux nations also allowed a hearing.
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London
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Russia
Italy
Japan
Foreign Ministers’ Council
U.S
Europe
International Information Bureau
Cominform
Lewis W. Douglas
U. S
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Potsdam
Three Hurt In Crash Reported Improving
Harrisonburg Va February 23 three persons injured in a three car collision near here Sunday were reported by hospital attendants to be improved today. Injured are Margaret Bell Laws 63 of Rockingham Pennsylvania a fracture of the arm Thomas D Chenoweth 19 of Elkins West Virginia with back injuries and Doris Jean Strole 20 Shenandoah College Shenandoah Va head injuries. Strole is said to be the most seriously hurt. Two others hurt did not require hospitalization.
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Harrisonburg
Bockingham Memorial Hospital
Margaret Bell Laws
Gron. Pa
Thomas D. Chenoweth
Elkins
W. Va
Doris Jean Strole
Shenandoah College
Shenandoah
Miss Strole
Magistrate orders support in three child case
Preston E Aiosburg of Dickerson was found guilty of non support of three minors by Magistrate Manuel M. Weinberg in Peoples Court. He was ordered to pay 39 a week for their support. Elsie Mossburg of North Benty Street was the complainant. Mossburg was released under a 250 personal bond.
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Preston E Aiossburg
Dickerson
Peoples Court
Manuel M. Weinberg
Elsie Mousburg
North Benty Street
Mossburg
Truman Urges Stronger Rent Control and Housing Plan
President Truman asked Congress to extend and strengthen rent control for four months and link it with a long-range housing program. He proposed a five point plan to keep rent limits, boost building, cut costs, aid low income families, and modernize cities while extending loan insurance and increasing rental housing funding.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
Jailed On Charge Of Failing To Stop In City Collision
John H. Blank Kinnehart was jailed on $101.45 collateral after the automobile he drove allegedly failed to stop following an accident in the 300 block of North Market street. He and two meters were involved with minor meter damage. Officer Kanode and Twentey arrested Blank a short distance away. In another Sunday collision in the 1000 block of North Market street, Jack M. Acker of New Oxford and George S. Harman of Union Bridge sustained car damage totaling over $50 with Harman cited as responsible.
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John H. Blank
Kinnehart
Bieley
North Market Street
Blank
Kanode
Twentey
12 Street
Jack M. Acker
New Oxford
Alarket Street
George S. Harmap
Union Bridge
Acker
Harman
Norman Diei
Seasonal Temperatures Across Nation Ahead of Cold Front
Chicago reports mild to warm readings with widespread above freezing levels in much of the nation. Only Caribou Maine spared with sub zero, while Burlington Vermont and Binghamton New York logged eight and seven degrees. A new cold front may sweep the northern Midwest by Wednesday morning, with temperatures dropping to 10 to 14 degrees after days near 33.
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Chicago
Caribou
Burlington
Binghamton
N. Y
Alentana
Midwest
W. A. Percy
Plains States
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Broad Run
Upper
County Roads Board
Lower
H. David Hagan
Frederick Memorial Hospital Nurses Training School
Georgianna Houck
Uliy
Stude
Shirley Baker
Mary Castle
Janis Clingan
Jean Crawford
Myrlee Dodd
Dolores Dutrow
Nancy Grove
Mary Sue Kent
Ruth McDevitt
Psiricia Shuik
Betty Kman
Betty Thompson
Virgin Islanders
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